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Candy Couture: A Sweet Life of Fashioning Identities excess couture Candyland candy Curator's Note Ranging from its appearance on Project Runway to being featured at the epicenter of Katy Perry’s “California Gurls” video, candy has outgrown its role ...

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Thanks Sammi for this excellent post! I especially think that your comments about moderation and wonder are extremely insightful. To some extent, your piece raises the question of why is it that, as a society, our beliefs about wonder often directly are l ...

Great post, Stephanie, and excellent discussion so far! One aspect that strikes me about Candy Crush and other games of this nature is how they mask other key issues, like addiction, behind a veneer of "the shiny, cute, warm, fuzzy, and/or playful.&q ...

Thanks Stephanie and Eric for your keen comments! I certainly agree that there are several differences between the ways in which candy functions as “couture” versus its usage in “everyday” fashion that are definitely worth further consideration. Particula ...

Thanks to Natalia for this wonderful post! It raises several questions about the intersection between candy, longing, and childhood. I wonder whether or not one of the reasons that this longing for foreign candy was heightened during that time was because ...

Thanks to Eric for posting this insightful piece and to everyone for the rich discussion so far! In addition to considering the varied, and often contradictory, roles that candy plays within our society and culture, it also makes me wonder about the ways ...

Helle’s insightful post not only demonstrates how ubiquitous food has become within media today, but also suggests how much we have become more attuned to, and aware of, food’s role within our societies and cultures. Although food would have been an aspec ...

Sarah’s thought-provoking post and the comments from others raise interesting questions about the paradoxical nature of our relationships with food today. Although many people seem to be more concerned about what they eat, simultaneously there seems to be ...

Bio

Carlnita P. Greene is a Visiting Assistant Professor in the School of Journalism and Communication at the University of Oregon whose research broadly operates at the intersections of food, media, and popular culture. Previously published on subjects as diverse as identity, style, and nostalgia, she is co-editor of Food as Communication/Communication as Food (Peter Lang, 2011). Her new book, Gourmands & Gluttons: The Rhetoric of Food Excess, is forthcoming from Peter Lang this fall.